symposium

symposium

See also: Symposium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪm.ˈpoʊ.zi.əm/

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Noun

symposium (plural symposiums or symposia)

1. A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
2. A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
3. A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
   • 1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:

     THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.

Related terms

• symposiast
• sympotic

Translations

a conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations

Albanian: simpozium (sq) m Arabic: سِمْبُوزِيُوم‎ m (simbūziyūm), نَدْوَة‎ f (nadwa) Armenian: սիմպոզիում (hy) (simpozium) Azerbaijani: simpozium Belarusian: сімпо́зіум m (simpózium) Bulgarian: симпо́зиум m (simpózium) Burmese: နှီးနှောဖလှယ်ပွဲ (my) (hni:hnau:hpa.hlai-pwai:) Catalan: simpòsium m, simposi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 討論會／讨论会 (zh) (tǎolùnhuì), 座談會／座谈会 (zh) (zuòtánhuì), 研討會／研讨会 (zh) (yántǎohuì) Czech: sympozium n Danish: symposium (da) n Dutch: symposium (nl) n Esperanto: simpozio Estonian: sümpoosion Finnish: symposiumi (fi), symposium (fi), esitelmäkokous French: symposium (fr) m Georgian: სიმპოზიუმი (simṗoziumi) German: Fachtagung f, Symposium (de) n, Symposion (de) n Greek: συμπόσιο (el) n (sympósio) Hindi: संगोष्ठी (hi) f (saṅgoṣṭhī), गोष्ठी (hi) f (goṣṭhī) Hungarian: szimpózium (hu) Italian: simposio (it) m, convegno (it) m Japanese: シンポジウム (ja) (shinpojiumu) Kazakh: симпозиум (simpozium) Korean: 심포지엄 (ko) (simpojieom) Kyrgyz: симпозиум (simpozium) Latvian: simpozijs m Lithuanian: simpoziumas (lt) m Macedonian: симпозиум m (simpozium) Norwegian: Bokmål: symposium n Persian: سمپوزیوم‎ (fa) (sampozyum) Polish: sympozjum (pl) n Portuguese: simpósio (pt) m Romanian: simpozion (ro) n Russian: симпо́зиум (ru) m (simpózium) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: симпозијум m, сѝмпо̄зӣј m (Croatia) Roman: simpozijum m, sìmpōzīj (sh) m (Croatia) Slovak: sympózium n Slovene: simpozij m Spanish: simposio (es) Swedish: symposium (sv) n Tagalog: sampaksaan Tajik: симпозиум (simpozium) Turkish: bilgi şöleni (tr), sempozyum (tr) Ukrainian: симпо́зіум m (sympózium) Uzbek: simpozium (uz) Vietnamese: hội nghị chuyên đề Volapük: spikädem (vo) Welsh: trafodaeth (cy) f

a drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion

Bulgarian: пиршество (bg) n (piršestvo) German: Symposion (de) n Greek: συμπόσιο (el) n (sympósio) Ancient: σῠμπόσῐον n (sumpósion) Russian: симпо́сий m (simpósij) Ukrainian: симпо́сій m (sympósij)

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Khmer: (please verify) សន្និសិទ្ធនៃអ្នកជំនាញខាងអ្វីមួយ (sɑnni’sət ney neak cumnieñ kʰaang ’vǝy muə yɔɔ)

See also

• symposium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• “symposium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”) συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: sym‧po‧si‧um

Noun

symposium n (plural symposia or symposiums, diminutive symposiumpje n)

1. symposium

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.po.zjɔm/, /sɛ̃.pɔ.zjɔm/

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Noun

symposium m (plural symposiums)

1. symposium

   Synonym: colloque

Further reading

• “symposium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /symˈpo.si.um/, [s̠ʏmˈpɔs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /simˈpo.si.um/, [simˈpɔːs̬ium]

Noun

symposium n (genitive symposiī or symposī); second declension

1. symposium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	symposium	symposia
Genitive	symposiī symposī1	symposiōrum
Dative	symposiō	symposiīs
Accusative	symposium	symposia
Ablative	symposiō	symposiīs
Vocative	symposium	symposia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “symposium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “symposium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposier, definite plural symposia or symposiene)

1. symposium

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

symposium n (definite singular symposiet, indefinite plural symposium, definite plural symposia)

1. symposium